I want to get a dog but I have to work, how does everyone on broadway market do it ?

Getting a sniff of a Shetland.

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Visiting parents and Flynn the smooth Collie for the weekend

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Nightmare isn't it? Crumpet had one before she was spayed. We avoided dogs as much as we possibly could but still had a boy run out of the park and across a main road to get to her. Very glad we didn't have to deal with it more than once. Regardless of what a pain in the arse it was for us, she was so miserable the entire time.

I think we are at the “I am down to fuck” point. So much sniffing of everywhere, a boy ran up to us today. Been quietly walking in Dulwich woods and having my radar set to “no dog breeding today”.
I’ve found a quiet place to do some “throw a stick” for 5 mins. Mainly just plodding through woods on lead. Have managed to get her to walk along fallen/growing on an angle trees.

Really looking forward to just sending her into the ponds again.

Getting spayed feels crazy.

There is an injection to suppress them coming into heat, Stella was on it until she was 3 and had her planned 'marriage' before being spayed. If you think you had a problem with dogs in the park, imagine her in heat with two very male labradors in the same house for a fortnight...

Like a dog with 4 dicks

Be nice to maintain the "One upside down hound photo per page" ratio of the last two pages.

Happy to help!

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That last one is amazing, haha

Crumpet's signature poise and dignity shining through here.

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Dolly is having a rest day, well only 5km, she walked over 80km while we were away.
LEAVE ME ALONE!

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Upside down Bosco

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I thought it was. Love that place. Three Cliffs I mean.

Whoops new page fail.

ANYWAY, the last five years of constant badgering seem to have paid off and it looks we’re getting a dog!

What are the ethics/consensus on spaying/neutering?

We’ve got an absurdly timid lab/spaniel 9-month old dog - everyone has advised us to not get him snipped because the hormones should hopefully improve his confidence. The implication seems to be that the onus is on the owners of bitches to get them spayed.

Our dog is good off-lead but I doubt we’d have any chance recalling him against a bitch-in-heat scenario. Would anyone?

I think the ethical position is to spay and neuter your dog - if you have no intention of breeding.
But then I also think unnecessary procedures are expensive, take time to recover, and affect your dog.
I have a female dog and I'm fucking bored of the last 3 weeks. We're not going to breed, though the idea of 10 lab puppies running around is appealing (as is the potential income), we probably will spay. But there's a lot of thought in this house of "fucking typical, it's the female that has to be "corrected"".

My take is get them fixed, boy or girl. We’ve only ever had rescue dogs and Dolly was originally a puppy farm mum and then left in a field out back for 6 months before being kicked out.
As well as the behaviour benefits there are loads of health ones too.
If they are pets and not income streams snip snip.

I don't disagree with the "if they are pets and not income streams" statement.

We decided not to get our girl spayed. She's nearly 4 now and our experience through 3 heats is that dog owners are worse than their male dogs. My gf has been shouted at and insulted on several occasions. I've seen people literally pick up their dogs and run away when I tell them my dog is on heat. Maybe Germans (over the age of 60) are particularly opinionated about it but here it seems to be male dogs can do whatever they want and female dogs must always be spayed. Lützi is healthy and wonderfully behaved and we won't be spaying her any time soon.

Oh what a lovely dog she's beautiful

SHE'S ON HEAT?!!!

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I have this fear that the owners will shout "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING? MY DOG IS INTACT! HOW DARE YOU!"

when what really happens is everyone quickly gathers their dogs looking nervous, many apologies from both sides are issued/or just from me and then there's a general relaxed statement of "it's ok" from the other humans.

Well that is what we've experienced many times. Almost always boomers. Younger people seem more relaxed about it

Who do you define as a boomer?

Over 60?

I do hate it when there's dogs in heat where I live, drives peanut mad but easy to avoid folk or if they say it's fine. Worse when its in a park though, seems like parks attract so many shite dog owners that cant control there dog or put it on a lead.

Dolly was originally a puppy farm mum and then left in a field out back for 6 months before being kicked out.

Srsly, humans are the fucking worst. My mate's just adopted a beautiful 1 yr old German shepherd that was found tied to a tree in the woods in Greece (where she lives) in roasting temperatures.